MikeFitz with overflow bit set…

We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!
— Wayne and Garth bowing down before Alice Cooper, Wayne’s World (1992)

Last month, I was honoured to be included in Frank Arrigo’s list of top 10 referrers. This list contained some august company indeed and I was certainly pleased to be on it.

But ever since then, I have tossed and turned at night, wondering how I managed to refer so much traffic to Frank’s blog. I mean, we’re talking Frank here! The Robert Scoble of Australia! Suggested by many as the Scobleizer’s replacement or Microsoft’s new #1 blogger. He with the stellar LinkedIn stats.

This cannot be right. Am I really worthy of making Frank’s top 10? Has Frank made a blue when compiling his stats? Hmmm…

I had a closer look at Frank’s top 10 list. I note that they all had their own domain names, eg

1. http://lifekludger.net/,
2. http://ubertablet.blogspot.com/ and
3. http://www.dotnetperformance.com/.

My own entry also fits this pattern:

4. http://mike.brisgeek.com/.

Entirely missing from this list are blogs with URLs like…

• http://msmvps.com/blogs/greglow/,
• http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling and
• http://spaces.msn.com/members/YourBlogNameHere

I know Frank said he eliminated fellow Microsofties (and probably Readifiers) from his analysis. Maybe in doing so, he has eliminated many other bloggers who share the same domain names. Or maybe I have uncovered a correlation between geek bloggers with their own domain names and heavy traffic? Are these related as cause and effect? And which one causes the other?

OK, now I have that off my chest, I’ll stop looking this gift horse in the mouth and just say “Thanks for the link, Frank”. Maybe I can get some sleep now.

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